Allied divisions had a firepower only slightly greater than that of World War I. Germany had six armoured divisions in September 1939; the Allies, though they had a large number of tanks, had no armoured divisions at that time. 1 of 2 German tanksGerman Pz. IV (foreground) and Pz. III...
Sixty-two years ago, then U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower delivered his farewell address in which he warned that the expanding U.S. defense establishment had become entangled with private industry in a way that was completely unprecedented for the United States and the world. This military-indu...
that had been set for them byOPEC. A day later Kuwait was accused of stealing oil from the Al-Rumaylah oil field, which straddles the border between Iraq and Kuwait. Ascriticismmounted, talks between the two countries inJeddah,Saudi Arabia, broke down on August 1. Hours later, early on ...
"I cannot deal with the pain that I have now. I miss my family and want to kiss all of them," she said with teary eyes. Younis Abu Al-Ezz, a Palestinian man who had evacuated most of his family members to the central city of Deir al-Balah, failed to stay by her father's death...
对战争伤亡总人数的估计有所不同，因为很多人都没有记录。大多数人认为战争中大约有6000万人死亡。许多平民因为疾病、饥饿和死亡，屠杀。战争结束，盟军在轴心国的总胜利在1945。二战改变了政治联盟（结盟）和世界社会结构。联合国成立是为了促进国际合作，防止未来冲突。苏联和美国成了敌对的超级大国，为...
Most of the deaths occurred in the country's south and northeast and among adult males, the report says. The striking new estimate comes weeks after the warring sides signed what the government called a "final final" peace deal. It returns rebel leader Riek Machar to his role as vice...
The United States became a Pacific power after the 1898 war with Spain, with new territorial claims stretching from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia, and was elevated to a superpower after World War II. "We tell ourselves that we have emerged from this war the most powerful nation in the wor...
(空袭) had an extremely destructive impact on wildlife populations as they contributed to the destruction of habitats. Apart from the bombs dropped during air raids, aircraft were also a significant source of air pollution. The most devastating environmental impact of the war was caused by the ...
For context: After the deaths of Indians last year in the war, New Delhi demanded the Russian army stop recruiting Indians and urged anyone seeking employment in Russia to be wary. About 45 Indians were discharged from the Russian army and efforts were under way to get a fu...
He also said the invasion of Iraqis and the conflict in Ukraine show that innocent people caught up in the midst of global conflict must be carefully protected.The Iraq Body Count,a web platform that maintains the world's largest public database of violent civilian deaths since the 2003 US ...